Discussions

As expected the Giants were tough after their loss last night.  
Vancouver work hard, forecheck with energy and take the body at every opportunity. They stand up for each other as well. I Thought larochelle and Regner were strong defensively, kane was tougher in traffic than I thought he would be. Cloud is a little ball of hate, Mahachuk (sp) was excellent.  
My favourite WK part of the night was when Schira draped himself all over Schenn no penalty called so Schenn just threw him to the ice!  
The first 2 periods were write offs, but had more effort in the third. I thought the Green, Jeffries Bartek line was the best line again in the third, had our only sustained pressure in the Giants zone. We tried both Cowan and Fehr on that top line, but they look jaded without Clark, Dittmer and Lowry need to start playing hard again. The kid line tried, but the fancy flicks and slick passing that was unstoppable up to now just hasn’t worked this weekend. The 4th line didn’t get enough shifts to show much. I think we miss Boyle a lot at the back. 2 huge character guys like Boyle and Clark are big holes to fill. Joe C was very good again, nice to see.  
This season has been an over achieving season, I think if our guys get back to hard work and drive to the net and shoot instead of that extra pass, we’ll be ok. How well Vancouver played tonight, I think that’s how dominant we’ll be the next 2 years. Cloud landed a right hand flush on Erb’s face, surprised it didn’t knock him down. Impressed with how Don hay was engaged with his players all game, one of the most animated & interactive visiting coaches I’ve seen here this year…  
Good size crowd tonight that was ready to show some life until the Fiants forechecked all the energy out of us and the players!!!